HISTORY OF BRITISH OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE PART 12
SUSTAINABLE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH: DEVELOPMENTS IN MANAGING HEALTH RISK IN CONSTRUCTION BY KELVIN WILLIAMS
The British Occupational Hygiene Society has been supporting workplace health prevention since 1953. Over that period, it has become more and more apparent that we all need to take a long-term view of workplace health. This is because causes of worker ill-health and the manifestation of occupational diseases often only become obvious sometime after exposure.
• Age well; • Require less social care and State support through benefits and healthcare. In practice this means that the Society’s professionals look beyond the management of hazards to the long-term control of risks.
As the Chartered Society for worker health protection, we believe that everyone should all be able to:
By working in partnership, we believe we are beginning to set a blue-print for sustainable workplace health. BOHS, as a scientific charity, has characterised the key facets of supporting sustainable workplace health as:
• Work healthily and in environments that are better for our physical and mental health; • Work productively and for longer;
A Anticipating and designing out health risks at work (in materials selection, process design and industrial practices);
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By working in partnership, we believe we are beginning to set a blue-print for sustainable workplace health. BOHS, as a scientific charity, has characterised the key facets of supporting sustainable workplace health...
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